Approach towards sex-work in India and the need of redefinition thereby

Prostitution is not only a form of paid service but also one of the oldest known professions. The taboo attached is well known especially for people who have not sold or bought sexual services, and think of it in symbolic terms. Although sex workers are in every society but people do not know how their lives are or how they survive in this world of hypocrisy. Even when every person and media platform is aware of their existence, nobody talks about their rights, their situations, their hardships or the stigmatization and hardship they face in their everyday lives side-lining the fact that every person possesses the right to control his/her our own body and mind. This research tends to explain how deprived and exploited women are in our country. Despite of the fact that our constitution guarantees right to equality and freedom of profession, but it has to be understood that there are certain people and professionals for which equality is just a lost dream. It needs to be understood that the women who are working as sex workers are deprived of everything; including food, shelter, clothing, dignity, respect and are outcasts of the society and they do it to earn a living , to support themselves, to provide for their families and sustain I this hypocritical world which knows of their existence and most employ themselves and engage in their trade for their physical pleasure but no one comes forward when their rights are on the line or when they are tormented and discriminated against. Hence this research project seeks to dwell into the interpretation of laws relating to Prostitution and understanding the legal status of the same. As this project is for the subject of law and social transformation so in this project the researcher will try to find out the link between the law and the society and also try to find out whether criminalizing will be the right step to curb the practice or decriminalizing it to establish the fact that there exists a need to change the "Approach towards sex-work in India and the need of redefinition thereby".